I finally have reliable Internet access here at the New House and can do a quickie update of my 50-book Challenge list. I spent the weekend up at Lake Tahoe and got a crazy mad amount of reading done while sitting on the beach watching the smoke from the fires on the Nevada side waft across the lake.

Book 66: DVD 2
I love these boys. I'm not as crazy about vol 2 as I was about the first, but I'm so happy DramaQueen finally got off the stick and released this that I'm willing to overlook a lot -- including the fact that the editing isn't as brilliant as in the first volume. (Biased? You bet.)

Book 67: The Moon and the Sandals 2
This was good, but not as good as vol 1, which was brilliant. It also contains enough sex scenes to completely knock it out of the running for GGNT. Too bad, as vol 1 as a stand-alone is brilliant.

Book 68: Love Pistols 1 (LJ)
This series contains so much cracky crack that it's hard not to love it for it's sheer silliness. Zoomanity. Male pregnancy. High school boys in really bad drag. Wild. I loved it in scans and I love it even more as a book.

Book 69: Lovers in the Night (LJ)
The book that proves that even Fumi can write PWP yaoi. Granted, it's pretty bad, but Fumi manages to make even bad yaoi worth finishing. But only just.

Book 70: Tramps Like Us 12
Oh, the love that I have for this series. Gosh I hope TP or Viz publishes more josei. I have high hopes that if Honey and Clover does as well as I think it is, that publishers will give the genre another try.

Book 71: Othello (LJ)
Meh. A series of light yaoi short stories, none of which were compelling enough to make me want to reread them. They were, y'know, fine.

Book 72: Re-Gifters (GGNT)
Pretty darn good. I was pulled into the story much more than I was with PLAIN Janes and the characters were much less cliched (while still being cliches). I really liked following the gift around from one character to another.

Book 73: Confessions of a Blabbermouth
I liked this one very much, too -- maybe because one of the authors is female, and thus the female characters rang somewhat truer. (In Re-Gifters there were occasions where I felt that I was reading what someone thought girls talked like, rather than what they do talk like, if you know what I mean.) As an aside, I wasn't crazy about the lesbian jokes in either book. They weren't funny and came off as cheap. This may be a byproduct of my having grown up in the SF Bay Area, though.

Book 74: Good As Lily
I think this may have been my favorite of the Minx bunch, even though I felt it needed a few more pages to flesh out some of the side stories.

Book 75: Igraine the Brave
Cornelia Funke rocks.

Book 76: The Mother-Daughter Book Club
Blech. It tried too hard to be Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants for middle schoolers and failed. Way too easy solutions to serious problems that lots of girls face, a much too contrived a happy ending, and it completely spoils Little Women for girls who may not have read it yet.